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Historical Note on Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $192$ - Missionaries and Cannibals
Martin Gardner reports on a graphical technique for solving such questions.
He cites a $1966$ article in Mathematics Magazine, and also 1965: T.H. O'Beirne: Puzzles and Paradoxes.
Sources
- 1965: T.H. O'Beirne: Puzzles and Paradoxes: Chapter $1$. One More River to Cross
- 1966: Robert Fraley, Kenneth L. Cooke and Peter Detrick: Graphical Solution of Difficult Crossing Puzzles (Math. Mag. Vol. 39: pp. 151 – 157)
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $449$. Missionaries and Cannibals